The Technical Leader Award enables you to lead and guide groups into technical and demanding mountain bike terrain. Rocks, roots, lumps and bumps, moorland, open ground and forest form the environments for Technical Leader groups

Key Content:

Extending your knowledge and skills from your Trail Leader, the Technical Leader Award enables you to move into technical and demanding riding.

Technical Leaders are widely skilled and able to take advantage of the majority of mountain biking available - its scope is amazing. Many employers, insurers, participants and leaders look to the Technical Leader Award as the benchmark of competence for complete mountain bike leading.

This course covers both hard skills such as riding, navigation, maintenance and emergency management and the vital soft skills of working with and developing your participants to increase their confidence and abilities.

Technical Leaders cover all environments - they can be anything from holiday guides, teachers and youth workers to multi-activity instructors and those running their own mountain biking businesses, whether in the UK or further afield.

Course outcomes:

Our expectations are high, but with our support they are achievable: once you are a Technical Leader you will be competent at:

riding in technical ground, including identifying what you shouldn't ride

Dales Bike Centre is in the unique position of being a centre of natural trails. No manmade surfaced trails here - just absolutely cracking natural riding across the north of the Yorkshire Dales. Ideally located for both Trail and Technical Leader courses as well as riding skills, Go MTB and development courses, access to trails is immediate, and the facilities at Dales are great.